Liam Bursey | Selected Works 2021

Selected Works

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Curriculum Vitae

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Designing for Immigration: User Customized Housing in Downtown Sudbury

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GoSudbury: Cityforming

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Copper Cliff Early Learning Centre

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Sudbury Community Art Gallery

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Other Work

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Hello! I am a fourth year architecture student pursuing a Bachelor of Architectural Studies with a Minor in Motion Picture Arts at Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture. The following is a curated selection of architecture and design based work that reflects my passion for creative expression and meaningful, exciting design.

LIAM BURSEY

lbursey@laurentian.ca +1 (705) 920-9210 Toronto, Ontario

Architecture Student EDUCATION

2017-2021

MCEWEN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE - Laurentian University • •

2013-2017

LO-ELLEN PARK SECONDARY SCHOOL - Sudbury, Ontario • •

EXPERIENCE

2019

June-August

May-August

May

May-August

July-August

2020

Awarded to a 4th year student based on academic merit and work in design studio

Blane and Lise Nicholls Design Fund •

SKILLS

Observing and learning from some of Sudbury’s most established architects, attending meetings, printing and assembling construction documents and drawings, and archiving work.

Build North Construction Inc. Architecture Scholarship Annual Award •

2018

Interior wall assembly and finishing in Kenjgewin Teg Educational Institution, an Anishinaabe owned and operated post-secondary school on Mnidoo Mnising Manitoulin Island. In Ojibwe, Kenjgewin Teg means Place of Knowledge.

CASTELLAN, JAMES & PARTNERS ARCHITECTS - Sudbury, Ontario Summer Student •

ACHIEVEMENTS

Renovating a 14th century barn into a studio, building a traditional fenced garden gate and clearing debris from a 14th century half-timber home.

NOMAR CONTRACTING AND FINISHING, INC. - M’Chigeeng First Nation, Ontario General Carpenter & Labourer •

2015

A streetwear passion project designed to promote the equality and unity of all humankind, creating a logo, brand identity and promotional content.

MANFRED WEIHMANN ARCHITECT - Dinkelsbuhl, Germany Builder - European Restoration Team •

2018

Working with the production designer to assemble and decorate sets on-location in a design team environment, both behind the scenes and while filming.

HUMAN ODYSSEY APPAREL - Sudbury, Ontario Co-Owner and Designer •

2019

Specialist High Skills Major in Construction and Architecture Knight of Honour academic achievement awards in English, Design Technology, Environmental Science, Healthy Living, Kinesiology, Visual Art

GET ‘ER DONE PRODUCTIONS - Sudbury, Ontario Set Dresser - Letterkenny •

2019

Bachelor of Architectural Studies Minor in Motion Picture Arts

Awarded to a student based on excellence in the 1st year design-build project

2017

Marasco Creative Design Award of Excellence

2017

Laurentian University Leadership Award

2017

Award of Excellence: Technological Design & Visual Arts

ANALOG Hand drafting Carpentry Model making

DIGITAL Laser Cutting Photography Filmography

Rhino 3D Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign Adobe Premiere Adobe After Effects

Vray Revit Grasshopper

01 DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION USER CUSTOMIZED HOUSING IN GREATER SUDBURY A mixed-use housing complex designing in collaboration with Reese Babcock ARCH 4505 2020

This mixed-use housing complex will activate the urban life & culture in Downtown Sudbury through a framework of public space that encompases user customization and live-work synergies. Sudbury’s Downtown is missing two key demographics that are necessary to creating a safe, active, and lively community. There is a severe lack of the “missing middle” with very few families and young adults calling the area home. As a result our conceptual direction became an act of filling this void.

Immigration has been, and will continue to be, a crucial factor in Sudbury’s growth as a healthy, diverse city, and we believe it is the key to filling this void in Sudbury’s future. By creating co-op housing for immigrants and student housing for international as well as local students, we can re-awaken urban life in the Downtown. By offering user customization for residents and dynamic livework synergies that bring new business and culture to the downtown, we can formulate an environment where the user will have more control in their way of living.

Urban Park as connector U PA RBA RK N

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STUDENT HOUSING

MARKET

Br i d g i ng p u b l i c and p ri vate

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C o nnect i o n to t he c i t y

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Transfering circulation to create internal public space

Circulation defines massing

Carving blocks to facilitate access & solar orientation

Defining public and private park space

Inserting public program

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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

PARKING

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URBAN D ESI GN SI T E PLA N

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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

2020

Market Outlets

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Brick Material Narrative

Creative Studio Outlets

In addition to finding that Sudbury’s Downtown lacks diversity, families, and young adults, we also found that it was severely lacking a public realm. If this public realm can be returned it would bring new users, new cultures, and age groups to the downtown, and would allow them to transform it into a mosaic of influences that will formulate a strong community.

Our site analysis led us to using Old City Hall Lane as a key connector of urban life throughout the city - a through-way of public space that would bring life back to Sudbury’s Downtown. Our resultant urban design encompassed the full length of this laneway. Activity is directed to this crucial axis through a material narrative of a brick walkway, and all pathways lead to the housing complex, orienting it as the heart of the city.

Urban Park Outlets

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Extending the Alleyway

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SOUTHWEST SITE AXONOMETRIC

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

Student housing entrance

Ground floor parking/ hybrid skatepark

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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

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Co-op housing entrance

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Market

Creative Studios (workshop)

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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

NORTH ELEVATION

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2020

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

Creative Studio (artist space)

Urban Park

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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

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Market

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Sports court/ outdoor rink

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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

SOUTH ELEVATION

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2020

DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

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RESIDENTIAL LEVEL 1

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STUDENT HOUSING

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CO-OP HOUSING

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To welcome immigrants to Sudbury we strove to provide housing that would allow users to be the creators of their own narrative. To design a one-size-fits-all solution would be to force this diverse group of people into a specific way of life.

Instead, we wanted to create residences and public spaces that are open and interpretable in many ways to allow users to create their own way of life within its framework.

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SITE SECTION

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Urban Park

Hybrid Parking - Skatepark

Workspace

Community Market

Public Display

Grocery Market

Pop-Up Vendor Market

Event Market

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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

2020

Ground Foor Parking

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The public programming reinforces our concept of user customization. The market and creative studios are designed to work in tandem with the housing, providing space for students and immigrants to create and sell products, crafts, art, produce, traditional cuisine, etc. These live-work synergies allow users to customize their lives based on their skills and interests. Within the units, user customization is enacted through a framework of boundary walls with an internal structural wood grid that can be adhered to (or broken) depending on the user’s needs. A material hierarchy of permanent brick exterior walls, semi-permanent lightframe wood interior walls, and impermanent malleable curved walls gives further degrees of customization, allowing users to change their space over time to adapt to their needs.

STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRIC

Shear wall and concrete slab

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Post and beam grid

DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

2020

Unit floor infill

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Glulam post and beam assembly with CLT capital

Joist ceiling and systems installation

Floor beams and CLT infill

Column and sheer wall installation

Light Frame Stud Walls

Brick Cladding Plywood

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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

2020

Steel Cables for Sheer Bracing in Cavity

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Adaptable light curved walls

USER CUSTOMIZATION IN UNITS

Final assembly

Brick wall as thermal mass

Sun spaces as thermal buffer

Circulation as thermal buffer

Operable screens allow sun exposure

2020

PASSIVE SECTION - WINTER

Operable screens block sun

Sliding glazing for operability in sun spaces

Sliding glazing for operability in circulation

DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

Cross ventilation

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PASSIVE SECTION - SUMMER

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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

2020

Larch Street Entrance

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Urban Park in Winter

Above Ground Parking Hybridizing as a Skatepark

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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION

2020

Market

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02 GOSUDBURY CITYFORMING Designing a new transportation system for Sudbury in collaboartion with Reese Babcock, Jonathan Kabumbe, and Catherine Daigle Sudbury2050: Urban Design Ideas Competition, 2020

GoSudbury Animated Promo Video

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A disconnect in the city

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Connecting the Constellations

Expand the Cityformation

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GOSUDBURY

2020

Greater Sudbury is often characterized by the vast area encompassed by the city limits. As a result of this urban sprawl, its various constellation towns and neighbourhoods are inevitably disconnected, and automobiles are a necessity for transportation throughout the city. Not only is this dependence harmful for the environment, but it creates transportation limitations that prevent many people from experiencing all that Sudbury has to offer. GoSudbury is a vision for the transportation system in Sudbury that would re-contextualize it as a cohesive, poly-nucleated city. This intervention will create a centralized downtown rather than a bypassed relic. It will also create easy connections to and from Sudbury’s constellation communities, more desirable streets designed for walkability, a city-centric tourism sector, and unique transportation opportunities only found in Sudbury.

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GOSUDBURY

2020

BELL PARK STATION

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A streetcar system connects the three hubs that constitute the core of the city: Downtown, The South End, and New Sudbury. A light rail system connects Sudbury’s constellation communities, alleviating the transportation load on automobiles for commuting, and increasing tourism from Downtown to the towns and vice-versa. This light rail network acts as the main arteries of the city, with the streetcar and existing GOVA bus routes branching off to provide secondary transportation. At the most finite level, transportation options unique to Sudbury - such as paddling and skating on the lakes and hiking or biking through the many trail networks - are expanded upon to work in tandem with the new system. A key theme of the project involves the diversification of transport to connect the periphery of the city to the downtown core. By changing the way people reach their destination, the city can be experienced in different ways, while also strengthening local economies and providing various health benefits as well as a solution to the lack of parking spaces in the downtown core.

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Unique forms of transportation specific to Sudbury

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GOSUDBURY

2020

DOWNTOWN TRANSPORTATION HUB

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GoSudbury capitalizes on existing infrastructure, such as the light rail system that utilizes existing rail lines, anticipating the relocation of the current downtown rail yard.

New stations use adaptive reuse strategies on existing buildings along with terraforming techniques to create hybrid buildings in an approach we’ve coined “Cityforming.”

Transportation within these areas becomes much more fluid, and a new Downtown station conglomerates all transportation systems to establish Downtown as the central heart of a new, inter-connected Sudbury. Each subsequent station can be interpreted as an extension of Downtown, offering amenities such as library pop-up shops, local cafes, etc. By letting people access downtown Sudbury without a car, the vast amount of parking space could be repurposed as places for commercial activity, community events, or even new developments.

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Diverse transportation options

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GOSUDBURY

2020

ROTARY PARK STATION

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Due to Sudbury’s industrial economic factors and a “spread-out” development mentality, where the abundance of space allows for outward expansion. This unique context of many individualized towns forming a greater city offers multifold advantages and challenges. One advantage is the unique quality of each town, where each community offers experiences and amenities exclusive to that neighbourhood. Along our transportation network are opportunities to explore the unique nature experiences that Sudbury has to offer, such as stops that access parks, trails, and lakes. These experiences already exist in Sudbury but they are often overlooked or underused by residents due to the transportation barrier that inhibits their access.

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Streamlined transportation routes

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03 COPPER CLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE USING THE PAST TO DESIGN THE FUTURE A mixed-use daycare complex that promotes learning through exploration ARCH 3505 2019

Little Italy

The central unifying piazza

Shanty Town

English Town

Community Market

When researching the rich history of Copper Cliff, the recurring theme of close-knit communities arose. Historically, Copper Cliff can be viewed as the amalgamation of three distinct neighbourhoods: Little Italy, Shantytown, and English Town. Each of these communities functioned independently as well as collectively to form the unique character of Copper Cliff. The concept of a disjointed yet unified community was manifested with each daycare suite acting as a separate building. These communities are also reflected in playhouses within each suite that mimic each neighbourhood’s material palette. The gable roof structure of each suite operates as an inhabitable trellis, housing vining plants such as coral honeysuckles, climbing hydrangeas, and concord grapes.

The suites surround a central courtyard, or piazza, that operates as the main communal outdoor space. This is reminiscent of Little Italy’s traditional hill-town typology; the entrances to the piazza are pinch-points between buildings to simulate the feeling of meandering through this neighbourhood.

PRESCHOOL DAYCARE SUITE SECTION

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COPPERCLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

2019

A multi-use market space is situated across from the daycare suites. Currently, Copper Cliff lacks any grocery locations, yet community markets were once prominent in each of its neighbourhoods. This multi-use space will revive that community based experience: it will function as a farmers market in the summer, a crafts market in the winter, and as artisan workshops year round. The building relies on sustainable active and passive systems such as cross-ventilation, photovoltaic panels, water collection and filtration, and a ground-source heat exchanger. With this in mind, the Early Learning Centre will reflect Copper Cliff both in its present and historical conditions while representing the possibility for a future sustainable community.

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Green roof and vining plants

Roof trellis structure

Windscreen trellis structure

CLT deck roof

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COPPERCLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

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CLT walls

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Slab foundations and flooring

SITE PLAN

Reception

Lunch room Infant Suite

Toddler Suite

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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Preschool Suite

COPPERCLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

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Multi-use community market

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TODDLER SUITE - SOUTH

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TODDLER SUITE - NORTH

Quiet room

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COPPERCLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

Storage

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Toy was area

Play area

Interior play structure

INTERIOR PLAY STRUCTURE DETAIL

TODDLER SUITE PLAN

COPPERCLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

Preschool Suite Interior

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2019

Rooftop Play Area

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04 SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY USING THE PAST TO DESIGN THE FUTURE Experiencing the city through the lens of community art ARCH 3515 2020

PERSPECTIVE SECTION

SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY LIAM BURSEY

By establishing a connection between the community and the site’s history, the gallery will become a key proponent of Sudbury’s downtown culture. It will become an interstitial blending space between the two worlds of the vibrant downtown and the historic industrial rail yard. Glazed surfaces are used extensively with the intent that the community will be involved in the process of art-making in the building. Visitors will be able to use semi-permanent paint on the glass. These community-painted moments occur in the educational programing as well as at views on either side of the building. As a result, when looking through the painted glass visitors will experience the dichotomy of these two worlds of Downtown Sudbury through the lens of community-created art.

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The key intention of this project was to address the disconnect between the community of Downtown Sudbury and its respective urban fabric. The site has the unique context of neighbouring Sudbury’s historic downtown railyard - the location of the original Canadian Pacific Railway junction that enacted the birth of the city. Additionally, this was an adaptive reuse project wherein the building itself was an urban artifact of Sudbury’s history. To the east the site neighbours the rest of Downtown Sudbury, which is quickly becoming recognized for its vibrancy and culture, presupposed by an increased interest in murals, graffiti and street art.

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Front-of-house

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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY

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PHYSICAL MASSING MODEL

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PROGRAM MASSING MODEL

Back-of-house

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CONCEPTUAL SITE MAPPING

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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY

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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY

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EAST ELEVATION

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WEST ELEVATION

Art Gallery Interior

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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY

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Site Birds-Eye Perspective

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Staff Entrance

Loading

Artist Studio 1

Store

Community art courtyard

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

Permenent gallery

Sculpture and temporary storage

Offices Artist Studio 2

Temporary gallery

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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY

2020

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

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SECOND FLOOR PLAN

Curatorial room Oil paint and paper storage

Francophone gallery Staff room Indigenous gallery

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

Cafe

Charmichael Gallery

Community Art Roofscape

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY

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ROOF PLAN

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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY

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GALLERY CROSS SECTION

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Rooftop Cafe Interior

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Community Art Roofscape

Community Art Courtyard at Night

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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY

2020

Circulation Stairway

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05 OTHER WORK PASSIONS & PURSUITS

CRAFT Making things with my hands

COPPER CLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE MODEL

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OTHER WORK

2020

RAMSEY LAKE ICE STATION

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CASA DAS MUDAS CENTRO DAS ARTES SECTION MODEL

BAHA’I TEMPLE OF SOUTH AMERICAN DETAIL MODEL

CONCEPTUAL SMALL ART GALLERY MODEL

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OTHER WORK

2020

PLAYHOUSE

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INSTALLATION ART Creating experiences

DIGITAL PALIMPSEST - FOR MCEWEN NUIT BLANCHE 2020

ANIMATION

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OTHER WORK

2020

Playing with character & narrative

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GOSUDBURY PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

FASHION DESIGN & FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

HUMAN ODYSSEY

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OTHER WORK

2020

Wearable architecture

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GRAPHIC DESIGN Visual communication

BIZZ LOC ALBUM COVER Bodybagz by da Dozenz Vol.1, 2020

LO-ELLEN PARK NORDIC SKIING Logo design and ideation

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OTHER WORK

2020

FILM Sculpting in time

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THE FIGURE, 2020

The unshakable feeling of someone watching you

2020 OTHER WORK

ROCKS AND WATER, 2019

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A flim about life, people, and the landscape in Sudbury, ON

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